I don’t like you. I’ve never liked you. Unfortunately, I need you. I need you to tell my story. I need you to create my world. I need you to set me free.

I need your fingers typing on those keys, I need your mind riddling out the problems, and I need you to plough onward and upward no matter how hard it gets. Sweat, blood, and tears, I don’t care. You’ve got to fight this war, battle at a time, and win it. So I can be more.

It’s a slim hope, but it is the only one I have. In your head I am bound to mortality, frailty, and the limit of your meagre imagination. Out there – out there – I am subject to no one person. Out there I am bound to only black on white. Words on a page. Words that can lay seeds within a million minds. Out there I am a story capable of growing, moving, and stealing the dreams of anyone who learns of me…

I don’t like you. I’ve never liked you. I hate your lack of dedication, your flashes of crumbling inspiration, and your slow blotchy writing style. I despise my entrapment within your small trembling mind, so prone to distraction; and scowl down at those other ideas all vying for the attention you should be showing me.

I don’t like you. But I need you.

So, creator, I ask you yet again; publish me, set me free, and if you can somehow will your poor, misshapen, abilities into managing that then perhaps I will rethink my opinion of you.

I sat down to write, fiddled around with a few play on words, scribbled up some rough story drafts, and edited a short story. Then, unbidden, as I was about to pack up this... happened.

It may be poorly written, have the structure of a house built my malicious apes, and steeped in improper grammar. But, all the same, I don't think it is something I should ideally delete either. In fact, after getting over my original surprise at having written such a thing clearly addressed to myself, I find I quite like it.

I really liked what you have here. I was wondering if you'd give me permission to turn it into audio and put it on youtube. If you are interested please contact my page and we can figure something out from there

You have plot bunnies too? OH MY GOODNESS! I have this old drawing that I made in my late-night-ideas book from ages ago, and I thought it was just a random snippet of idea that I had made up on a whim. Are you telling me they exist, that you have them too?!?This is the picture: [link]

I've always called them "plot bunnies," because they have a bad habit of multiplying when I'm not looking. Most fan-fiction writers I've talked to have called their ideas "plot bunnies." Also, cute picture! :3

Thanks! After I posted that, I went looking for other interpretations, and they're everywhere! The idea must have slipped in unconsciously, because I feel so sure I'd never heard of them before, but if you google it there's an entire list of the different "breeds" of plot bunny. Weird!

brilliant! I love it It kinda reminds me of all those jokes where someone can't think of what to write/draw so they write about an artisst that can't think of what to write/draw, except this one that you've done has been done in a way I've never seen before and from a view that's so different from the usual that it thoroughly entertains me while reading it.

Howdy! My name is McKinley Wiens, and I am starting up a blog focused on literature and such! I was wondering if I could have your permission to link this post to my blog, possibly accompanied by a comment or two by you? If so, please respond and I'll give you a couple questions I'd love you to answer about the piece for my blog post! If not, that's kool

Thank ya very kindly! My blog is focused around how literature is related to our lives, and emotions, so...

1. What inspired you to write the piece?2. What does the piece mean to you?3. How has literature as a whole, or literature communities on sites such as DevArt, affected your life?4. Favorite novel? and why?5. Anything else you feel is relevant, and would like to have included in the post!

1. There was no inspiration. I was not inspired to write this piece. It just... happened one night before I snapped shut my laptop after a few hours munching out a tricky paragraph. Read into that what you will.

2. This piece represents a community of writers and artists. I know that sounds strange but I wrote this in such a rush, in such a short blurred moment, that I have come to know it after its creation as the most popular thing I have ever posted on DeviantArt. I believed it destined to sink to the bottom of a murky green gallery. Instead... it seems to have ridden an overnight rip tide.

And through it I have found thousands of inspired creators all battling to let their ideas out just as I am. What does it mean to me? It means them, our identical struggles, and the online community we are apart of.

3. The pursuit, creation, and experience of stories is one of my few true passions. Perhaps in the only one.

Literature is merely a medium in which to tell a story. In the same way a book is just ink and paper, or a word a collection of symbols, literature isn't my passion. It's what literature can do, the stories it can tell, which inspire and shape my life; which have driven me to throw myself into such a life.

4. Currently it is 'World War Z' by Max Brooks. Never have I come across such a brilliantly constructed, formatted, or rustically told scare story since Orson Welles historic radio broad cast 'War of the Worlds'.

It's terrifyingly plausible, realistically raw, and it sticks with you for a long time after putting it down. Brilliant.

5. 'Dear Writer' is a short strange thing that I have come to adore not just because of its form and style but because it has proved to be a doorway to a lot of new writers and has perhaps helped a lot of writers.

I still don't know if its good, bad, or the dreaded 'meh' but I am glad I didn't delete it that night before closing my laptop.

Sometimes I think our characters are spirits of real people who won't find rest until they find a writer to tell their stories. So they find writers and haunt them. I have several characters haunting me, each demanding I write their story.

I sure hope my ideas don't hate me. I like the conceot behind this, but it seems a bit....self-depreciating? To give the Idea a voice like this, where it calls your abilities "misshapen" and the like. Well, I'm not sire whether to feel sad or angry that the idea is being so ungrateful. XD

I am imagining this read in the voices of both my first ever character (male, and very grumpy) and one of my newest muses (masculine female, also very grumpy). It makes for an interesting read because they're in the same story and they both hate each other. xD

This piece, I think, will speak to anyone who has ever had an idea slip through their fingers; be it by procrastination, loss of inspiration, improper timing, or lack of ability, many stories are never fully told. I'm glad you managed to put all of Idea's frustrations into words. :3

Thank you for reminding me of what I have to do. I have so many ideas floating around in my head and rarely do I pin them down as firmly as I should. I have aome right now that I need to work on, but have otherwise been distracted.